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...when you're still being offered credit cards in the mail and 0% financing at the car dealership? Maybe you used to bank with Washington Mutual or Wachovia and overnight you've become a Chase or Wells Fargo customer, but if your money's still there, why does the rest matter...
...1970s, including his acclaimed volume “North” in 1975 and accepted a post as visiting professor at Harvard in 1981. He was elected to the Boylston chair in 1984. The arrangement allowed him to spend only four months per year in Cambridge, and the rest at home in Dublin with his wife, Marie, a fellow writer. From 1989 to 1994, Heaney flew back and forth between Cambridge and Oxford for his five-year professorship, and after took a leave of absence from Harvard. Then, in 1995, Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel...
...perhaps it shouldn't have come as such a shock when the House of Representatives failed to pass the bill Monday afternoon, or that the rest of the day was spent in partisan fury and recriminations: Democrats blamed Republicans, Republicans blamed the Dems, the House blamed the Senate, the Senate blamed the House, John McCain blamed Barack Obama, Barack Obama blamed - well, you get the picture. Only one player remained relatively restrained in the aftermath of the defeat, which led to a 777-point free fall for the Dow Jones industrial average, the largest single point drop in history...
...very musical interpretation of the scene. With her sleek brown hair half-pulled back, her high, sustained notes tugged at the audience’s heartstrings as she, playing heroine Tatiana, declared her love for the dashing Onegin. Throughout the performance, her slender hands remained mostly in a rest position, and she only occasionally engaged her body in physical expression of the music. Her expressive rubato allowed her voice to soar above the orchestra, but the musical lines could have been longer and more nuanced. Before the last note drew to an exciting end, a particularly enthused man seated...
...allowed to fail, with only insured deposits safe; WaMu was seized, but all depositors were protected; and Wachovia was sold in a deal that protected both depositors and owners of the company's bonds but left shareholders with very little - has left investors guessing about the fate of the rest of the banking world. Hardest hit in today's market sell-off were regional banks like Sovereign Bancorp and National City, perhaps because they seem too small to get special FDIC treatment...